Edmund Kirby

Edmund Kirby (11 March 1840-28 May 1863) was a Brigadier-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Edmund Kirby was born in Brownville, Jefferson County, New York in 1840, the second cousin of Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith and the grandson of Jacob Brown. He graduated from West Point in May 1861 with Adelbert Ames and Emory Upton, and he served as a US Army artilleryman in the Army of the Potomac during the campaigns in Virginia. On 3 May 1863, during the Battle of Chancellorsville, he took over the 5th Maine Battery, and he was heavily wounded by case shot. His leg was amputated, and he died on 28 May 1863, the same day that he was given the rank of Major-General.